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Once again the contrast to von Weizsacker could hardly be more striking. While von Weizsacker spoke of the need to confront the past at the 40th anniversary of V-E Day in 1985, Kohl celebrated German-American friendship with Ronald Reagan at Bitburg over the graves of SS soldiers. In light of Kohl's view of history, this incident and others--such as his comparison of Gorbachev to Hitler's propaganda minister--cannot be excused as isolated judgment errors...
...there is the memory of what happened 50 years ago, when we were occupied. But don't forget the great reconciliation between the two countries that began with Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, continued with Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Helmut Schmidt and goes on now with the friendship between Francois Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl...
Baker bore the scolding with a blank expression. Then both men emphasized the positive. Mandela characterized their discussions as "dominated by the spirit of friendship." Baker hailed Mandela's courage as "something the world has taken note...
...footsore reporters waited outside a restaurant for crumbs of comment, Mizz Liz sailed in to console Ivana in the guise of boon companion, swapped expressions of abiding misery, then hurried out to whip intimate confidences into a souffle of salaciousness and scandal. Not that Ivana felt betrayed -- the whole friendship, like nearly every friendship between gossips and the gossiped-about, was based on mutual exploitation, an exchange of private trust before an audience of millions of strangers...
...find young and pretty Alex the embodiment of a victim of AIDS, alone and afraid. Her sister and her best friend Sam are too busy to come visit her. She finds comfort in the development of a friendship with Louise, her nurse. Louise, overworked and under pressure from the head doctor to take better care of the patients, is torn between helping Alex and sparing herself the hurt that inevitably comes of emotional investment in a dying patient...